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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1906
Page
8
Tropera Filicintonio of 62 Prince street North End shared a Post reporter recounting a bunco con he fell for. Two strangers offered a risky partnership and entrusted him with $1000 which Tropera kept in a handkerchief. They vanished after two hours leaving only worn paper.
John Kivatsky, 35, suffered seventy head stitches at Frost Hospital Chelsea after blows with a bottle on Arlington Street. He is on the danger list with possible skull fracture. He knows the attacker by sight but not by name. police seek the assailant near his Arlington Street home.
Albert Rountree of the cotton brokerage firm R H Rountree & Co and a 30 year member of the New York Cotton Exchange died today at his Brooklyn home.
President Roosevelt will oversee a Labor Day parade of 45 battleships and battle cruisers on Sept. 8 costing about 1 million dollars. The fleet will assemble in battle array to demonstrate rapid mobilization and readiness, with the Mayflower carrying the president and a small party aboard.
The Car men's Union declared the five weeks' strike at an end in New Bedford on August 19. About 100 holdouts will be rehired by President Cropo as needed, with a few refused. Ringleaders barred from rehire. William Cleary, once Carmen's Union president, remains on police duty at a local theatre for the season.
A census shows over four million dogs and about seven million cats in England. Including taxes, dogs cost owners about 24 million dollars annually and cats about 22 million.
A list of leading active New York stocks shows their high and low for the year and the present year, with net changes for the week and month to indicate market trends and allow reader comparisons. Industrials are highlighted in the report.
Market observers warn that the coming week may bring a mix of further gains and possible reversals as Union Pacific and Southern Pacific rise on optimism about Harriman interests. Traders should act with caution as cross influence from leading stocks could drive broad swings and trigger a potential pullback within 48 hours.
Two young boys crouched on a trestle over the East Boston marshes as two trains approached from opposite directions. Engineers halted both trains within 15 feet, saving the children, who were later taken to Orient Heights station and released after authorities noted their names.
William K. Vanderbilt Jr will appear in the Norfolk District Court tomorrow to answer overspeeding charges after a Washington street incident. He protests the action as high handed and vows to fight the case. Also from New York News obit actor Lewis Morrison dies after stomach trouble operation at St Johns Hospital Yonkers aged 61. Morrison famed for Mephisto in Faust and had a long stage career with notable peers and Civil War service. He was born in Jamaica in 1845 and later joined the Union army rising to captain before pursuing theater across the United States and Canada.
Mr Vanderbilt his wife and a mechanic were stopped by Officers Smith Hatch and Crocker on a measured course near a hayfield. The party claimed 12 mph after warning arrests at 30 mph. Harold F Vanderbilt was arrested a week earlier on the same charge and released with counsel. Edith F Kimball daughter of a Providence businessman was also arrested claiming under 28 mph while insisting under 20 mph.
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